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Australia: Police spray use under fire
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"Queensland Police Minister Tony McGrady has defended the use of capsicum spray by police officers after it was used to subdue New Year's revelers on the Gold Coast."
"A televised incident has sparked an investigation by acting Commissioner Dick Conder."
"He will examine whether there was excessive use of the spray after a news cameraman in Surfers Paradise captured footage of police using it on two men, who cried in pain as a result." ... |
Study: Gun injuries cost $802 million nationwide
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"Injuries from gunshots result in $802 million a year in hospital charges nationwide, with nearly a third of victims uninsured, a new study indicates." ...
"Coben said that gunshots were 'the leading cause for uninsured hospital days in the country that year.' "
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Fact: The medical cost of gun violence is estimated to be less than one percent of America’s annual health care expenditures. |
South Africa: 'Bag-snatcher' shot dead as hijack suspect
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"A Germiston motorist on Tuesday shot a man whom he said he thought was a hijacker while the man apparently was only trying to snatch a handbag, police reported."
"Superintendent Andy Pieke said the motorist was driving along Pretoria Street in Germiston on Tuesday evening with his sister-in-law and four children. When he stopped at an intersection, a man smashed a rear window. He saw his sister-in-law struggling with the attacker..." ... |
Government-mandated cell phone etiquette?
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"Americans who find cell phone conversations annoying could patronize phone-free theaters, stores, and restaurants. Meanwhile, cell phone junkies would seek out phone-friendly environments. That way everyone would be satisfied - everyone except pandering politicians. Let's hope the crusade to hire cell phone cops that started in New York ends in New York as well. Civilized people can deal with minor annoyances without government intervention." |
LA: Sketch released in Louisiana killings
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"Announcing a 'substantial development' in the southern Louisiana serial killer case, authorities say they are looking for a 'person of interest' spotted in a white pickup truck near where the latest victim was found." |
MD: Pr. George's Man Is Fatally Shot Outside Home
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"A Hyattsville area man who for years portrayed himself as a retired D.C. police officer was fatally shot ..." ...
"The inside of Giannini's red truck, sources said, was outfitted to resemble a police vehicle, with a siren, flashing lights, ticket books and fake police identification cards. Inside his single-story, white-frame house, investigators found police academy diplomas and police badges that appeared to be falsified and several hastily assembled police IDs..." |
UK: 'Shots heard' by officers in London armed siege
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"Shots were fired inside the flat at the centre of a seven-day armed siege last night."
"Police who have surrounded the flat in Hackney, east London, since Boxing Day, said they heard what "may have been a shot or shots" at about 5pm. A spokesman said the police did not return fire, and neither the gunman nor the hostage had been hurt." ... |
LA: New Orleans murders up 22 percent in '02
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"Independent experts who closely watch the New Orleans Police Department say its leaders need to figure out ways to improve public support, including the cooperation of witnesses, in solving crime."
"A shrinking police force is another problem." ... |
Regulators aim at money laundering
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"Mutual fund companies would have to file reports on suspicious financial transactions as part of an effort to catch drug dealers, terrorists and others who launder money, federal regulators recommended yesterday."
"If it's implemented, the recommendation ...would bring mutual fund companies more in line with banks, securities firms, money-service businesses and other companies that are required to file similar reports with the government."
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This is otherwise known as the government forcing all financial institutions to spy on their customers, or doing the government's dirty job for it. |
OK: School shooting law ruled invalid
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"The law used to charge a Moore teenager with planning a school shooting is unconstitutionally vague, a Cleveland County judge ruled Tuesday."
"[Defense attorney Sara] McFall called the law a 'knee-jerk reaction' by state legislators to school violence."
"[A]ttorney Steve Presson said Robertson was being charged as a criminal for merely writing down his thoughts."
"McFall argued that Robinson did nothing to put the plan into action and did not show his writings to anyone." |
GA: Shopkeeper shoots robber, police say
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"A convenience store owner shot and killed one of three men who tried to rob him Tuesday."
"It was the second time that the owner, Xiao Ming Lin, was involved in a fatal shooting at one of his stores."
"In January 2001, Lin was beaten with a brick during an attempted armed robbery at his former business on 40th and Montgomery streets. In that case, Lin's son shot and killed the suspect." ... |
New Year revelers defy security fears
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"More than 500,000 New Yorkers shrugged off domestic terrorism concerns and the threat of war with Iraq to usher in 2003 in Times Square."
"The massive party was given the official theme "Hope for Courage" but the high police presence, sealed manhole covers and myriad other security checks were a constant reminder of the troubles clouding the celebrations." ... |
Court Upholds Terrorism Law Secrecy
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"In a high-profile affirmation of the government's powerful new counter-terrorism laws, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that authorities can freeze the assets of a U.S.-based global Islamic charity that it believes is linked to terrorism without providing its evidence to defense lawyers."
"Justice Department officials and a lawyer for the charity described the ruling as a precedent-setting case that upholds some aspects of the USA Patriot Act ..." ... |
John Ashcroft: Man of the Year
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"John Ashcroft, the 79th attorney general of the United States, is Human Events 'Man of the Year' for 2002." ...
"...John Ashcroft and the department he heads have also taken vital steps in returning to the Executive Branch a respect for the rule of law and an understanding of the concept of separation of powers that is the foundation of ordered liberty in America." ...
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Life in the US with guns
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"Melissa thinks there should be stricter gun laws in America." ...
" 'In social studies class we talked about how so many people are killed by guns each year.' "
"About 15,000 people are killed intentionally by handguns in the United States, however in Great Britain, no more than a few dozen are killed each year."
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However scores more are raped, burgled, assaulted and shot in Great Britain than in the US, and their victims are completely disarmed! So much for public school education.
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Canada: Lawmaker breaks gun law
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"An Alberta lawmaker said he won't register his firearms yesterday, joining thousands of Canadians defying the controversial federal gun law."
"Doug Griffiths, a member of the governing Progressive Conservatives, said Monday that he doesn't even have a license for his firearms."
" 'They could come and arrest me, and Lord knows they might,' said Griffiths, a rancher and gun owner who represents Wainwright, a provincial constituency east of Edmonton." |
Canada: Gun-owning protesters arrested after flouting firearms law on Parliament Hill
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"Two gun-owning protesters were arrested and several others tried to draw police charges after flouting Canada's firearms law at a New Year's Day protest on Parliament Hill."
"Jim Turnbull, head of the Canadian Unregistered Firearms Owners Association, was arrested and charged for carrying a receiver - an unloaded part of a handgun - after burning a copy of the Firearms Act. Ed Hudson, another member of the association, was later charged with the same offence." |
OR: RUBBISH!
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"Portland's top brass said it was OK to swipe your garbage--so we grabbed theirs." ...
"Back in March, the police swiped the trash of fellow officer Gina Hoesly. They didn't ask permission. They didn't ask for a search warrant. They just grabbed it. Their sordid haul, which included a bloody tampon, became the basis for drug charges against her..." |
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